Naps **pulls out hair**

Ok I’m about to lose it over these damn naps. She absolutely still needs a nap. Her mood and behaviour are awful If she misses it. But every day is a battle and probably at least 3-4 days a week I lose. I also have a 9 week old so that just makes everything harder. I could literally cry I’m so frustrated.

I put uer in her cot and ignore her.
She usually screams and shouts for 10 mi...

Posted
30/04/2018

I put uer in her cot and ignore her.
She usually screams and shouts for 10 minutes, then falls asleep.
Its been the same for well over a year. But once shes asleep she will sleep for 2-3 hours, so obviously needs it.

I hear you on needing the toddler to nap! I have a 12-week-old too who can’t seem to nap unless she’s in my arms or the sling. We’ve just moved my DS (dear son) out of his cot - held out as long as we could - and I was really worried as he’s been resisting naps for several months already. He is napping though, hooray. Things that work for him: give him LOTS of warning when nap time is coming up, read a book with him and then let him have a couple of books with him in bed to “read” himself to sleep. We still have a baby gate on his room because we can’t fit one at the top of our stairs, so he can’t leave his room during the naptime. We have a playroom, so all his toys have been moved there and he only has books and soft toys left in his room, so it’s a calm space. He does kick off a bit at first until I leave the room, then I can hear him happily chatting away and looking at his books for 15/20 mins before he starts calming down for sleep. If he hasn’t calmed down by then, I know he’s not tired enough for sleep, but I still leave him there for up to an hour for some quiet time by himself. It’s good for him and for me lol. That’s been his routine for a long time though, so he’s quite happy once the initial quick tantrum about going is over. It does help that he loves his new bed.

We had exact same problem. Newborn and a 2yo who refused to nap. We stopped them. Too much hard work and quite frankly was still just as moody with one! Now we have relaxing time where he has a snack and watches iPad. Some days he’ll nap if we’re in the car but it’s far less stressful worrying about it. He also goes to bed really well now!xxx

We had exact same problem. Newborn and a 2yo who refused to nap. We stopped t...

Last edited
02/05/2018

We had exact same problem. Newborn and a 2yo who refused to nap. We stopped them. Too much hard work and quite frankly was still just as moody with one! Now we have relaxing time where he has a snack and watches iPad. Some days he’ll nap if we’re in the car but it’s far less stressful worrying about it. He also goes to bed really well now!xxx

Think we started with missing the odd one and then giving him one if he was really tired and it just slowly fizzled out. We just felt housebound and with a newborn who was going through a fussy phase it just made sense. X

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